So, people in the chemistry community and in the physics community had this general feeling that the theoretical structure of the entire universe was pretty well understood.

在化学界和物理学界,人们都觉得描述,整个宇宙的理论框架,已经被很好的理解了。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Milton needs to imagine the narrative of the Creation as if the narration itself were taking place in the beginning, as if poetic creation could be a first in the same radical way that the creation of entire universe is obviously a first.

弥尔顿想象的对上帝创造万物的讲述,与上帝创造万物一样发生在太初之时，诗歌创作与整个宇宙的创造,都发生在太初之时。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The whole universe was crazy and cockeyed and extremely strange.

整个宇宙疯狂而荒唐，极其怪异。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选